Barton Steeple, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Barton-Steeple, a township and a parish in Oxfordshire. The township lies on the river Dome, a tributary of the Evenlode, 2½ miles W of Heyford station on the G.W.R., and 4½ SSW of Deddington. The parish includes also the townships of Middle-Barton and Seswclls Barton; and its post town is Oxford, which is the money order office; telegraph office, Middle-Barton. Acreage, 3046; population of the civil parish, 814; of the ecclesiastical, 798. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; gross yearly value, .6114 with residence. Patrons, the Duke of Marlborough and the Hall family. The church is an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Oxfordshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Steeple Barton St. Mary | |
| Hundred | Wootton | |
| Poor Law union | Woodstock |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Oxfordshire Family History Society and Oxfordshire History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Oxfordshire online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Barton Steeple from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barton, Steeple (St. Mary))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online
Maps
Online maps of Barton Steeple are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Oxfordshire newspapers online:
- Oxford Journal
- Banbury Advertiser
- Banbury Guardian
- Oxford University and City Herald
- Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette
- Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette
- Oxford Times
- Banbury Beacon
- Ossett Observer
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Oxfordshire, 1566, 1574 &1634 are available on the Heraldry page.